"The Bible was compiled by men" and "many religions exist" are arguments against certainty, not arguments against truth. You still have to demonstrate why the claims are false rather than simply pointing out that humans transmitted them. Otherwise you're just replacing one belief "it's true" with another "it's obviously false" without showing the work in between.
A surprisingly philosophical take from the Cow King. I was expecting more moo, less wisdom. I think that's a fair way to view it. Whether someone sees the Bible as divine or not, the "compiled by men" argument doesn't automatically tell us whether the ideas themselves are true or false.
Yet another mystery of the Bible. Back to you ^addone
I am simply taking a position "fake until proven true"
Christianity and religion in general fails to establish truth it just states claims as if they were true without demonstrating how they are true. They attempted to justify those claims through faith based presuppositions, hearsay and personal anecdotes and many the use of fallacies like arguments from ignorance. These are all very unreliable ways to prove anything especially the extraordinary claims made by religion.
The onus is on them to prove it, they have not.
Its been well over 2000 years for Christianity and even longer for other older religions to provide those receipts. Safe to say its fake, hence the thread title.
Besides many of the religious claims are unverifiable unless you have a time machine. The ones we can verify apologists produce excuses and won't admit they or the bible is wrong.
The question becomes of how many more centuries/millenia are we going to wait before something is officially classified as fake?
If christians would like to keep their religion they can't go around promoting it as true thats false advertising. They need to reclassify it as a myth or a christian theory.